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Full Leased Wire of the Associated Press st-iribunt Fnl Leased Wke of the United Press ll FINAL EDITION VOL. 67, NO. 819 JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI, FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 1934 PRICE TWO CENTS TRRP HUTCH IlLESED EXTORTIONIST Federal and State Officers Close In On Man Who Sought $16,000 WEALTHY MERCHANT SENT THREE LETTERS lold to lnse Ad and Deliver Cash; Officers Catch Suspect MRS. DALL LIVING ON NEVADA RANCH RENO, June 22--(UP)-Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Dall has moved to the Pyramid Lake ranch of Mr.

and Mrs. William Sheperd Dana, wealthy NEW Yorker, her attorney, Sam Platt, announced today. The ranch is 35 miles from Reno, near Sutcliffe, overlooking the sandy plains surrounding Pyramid Lake. The President's only daughter, who is in Nevada to divorce Curtis Dall, New York and Chicago broker, gave up her cottage at Laktaho after five days residence there. Platt declined to say how long Mrs.

Dall would remain at the Dana ranch. Mrs. Dana is an old friend of the Roosevelt family, it was explained. BUG PRICES BE REVISED OMAHA, June 22--(AP) -Arrested near Council Bluffs, early today as the result of an elaborate trap arranged by state and federal agents, a man who said he ws Lyle Erwin, 42, of Omaha, was questioned here regarding details of an alleged attempt to extort $6,000 from Earl E. May, wealthy Shenandoah, seed man and merchant.

Officers expressed belief the name given by the suspect was fictitious. Erwin was fairly well dressed, appeared to be well-educated, and said he had studied medicine. Fourteen men took part in arranging the trap that bagged Erwin as he stood on a highway two miles south of Council Bluffs. To the! Iowa State Agents and Federal Bureau of Investigation Agents he denied having had anything to do the plot insisting that he was a hitch-hiker. Two Failures.

st followed two failures, w)' to deliver a dummy "-vr aid May had receix id.ic-.ir during the past week, each threatening him and members of his family with death and promising this his home be bombed unless he delivered money at the spot near Coun- fcil Bluffs. Tne first letter, received last Friday, agents said, directed May to put a -want ad- in- the -personal of an Omaha newspaper stating "I will deliver, Earl," and to drive that 'vening to Omaha by way of Sidney and Glenwood, la. At the right side of the road, either on the way to Omaha or on the way home, the letter stated, May would see a red flare on the right side of the road. He was to stop there and get further instructions as to where to place the money. Joseph Burke, state agent from Des Moines, drove May's car in the first attempt at roadside contact but nothing happened as May had received the letter too late to in- Construction Industry Plans 10 to 15 Percent Reduction In Charges DRIVE TO REDUCE COSTS A IMMEDIATELY Hope Increased Volume Activity Will Permit Price Slash PENILE FORD Officials Will Loan to Industries Buying Products of Detroiter I TO DEftJH WITH' PISTOL Knocked Down by Man He Sought to Arrest In New Madrid SHERIFF TAKES ALLEGED KILLER AFTER SLAYING Wealthy Man Slays Wife Wounds Children, Suicides Convict Denies Acting As Fixer in St.Louis Case Penitentiary Inmate Calls Accusations of State Witness "Pack of Dirty Lies;" Says He Didn't Have Anything to Do With Richards Affair RAMPAGE TERRORIZES HOUSEHOLD IN OHIO Had Fied From House Where Shooting Occurred JESSE JONES AGREEABLE Says Regulations of NRA Do Not Bar Purchases from Henry WASHINGTON, June 22-- (AF)Diverse opinions were expressed today by Reconstruction Corporation officials as to whether direct federal loans to industry could be used for purchasing Ford products.

Chairman Jones expressed belief that regulations imposed at the request of the NRA do not bar purchases from Henry Ford. "I do not see," he told reporters, "how this could keep anyone from buying a Ford car if he wants to." WASHINGTON, June revision of building material prices under NRA codes, to re-enforce the administration homi building and repair program, wa said today by an authority in th construction industry to be plannec within the next fortnight. Not even awaiting President Roosevelt's signature of the Housing Bill, the was depicted as contemplating cuts of from ten to fifteen per cent in its charges. The spokesman, who did not want his name used, was in a position to know the facts. While components of the industry have insisted that present cost-production prices have been the minimum at which plants could be operated and employment maintained at maximum, it was said leaders in the business expect the housing program so increase volume that there will be no decrease in employment and net profits will suffer but Mother-ln-Law Wounded, In Hospital, May Die "A pack of dirty lies Those were the words used today by Oliver C.

Hoge, long-term inmate at the state penitentiary, in answer to accusations that he acted as a "jury fixer" for Verne R. C. Lacy, St. Louis attorney, in the trial or 'aul Richards, another lawyer on i-ial for alleged oonneetion with vidnaping there. The accusations were made Herbert Kecton, testifying for the slate in Lacy's current trial.

Lncj little. A drive to reduce building costs has been under way for some time. The reduction has two main objectives: To increase activities under the sert the want ad. Monday another letter arrived, setting Tuesday night for the drive. A terrific storm, however, apparently dismayed the letter-writer.

Burke made the drive but nothing happened. Agents Get Busy Yesterday the third letter came, telling May to insert another "want ad. He did and Burke started again. Near the deaf institute south of Council Bluffs, he saw a flashlight at the right side of the road, the lens covered with red paper. He stopped and found a note attached to the light, telling him to leave the money by a phone pole across the road.

Burke left a can and drove on. A farther on state agents G. L. and O. B.

Wenig of Des Moines, who had been crouching on the floor of the car, slipped out as Burke slowed down. The two agents went back and when a man appeared out of the darkness and picked up the flashlight' they ordered him to stand where he was. Burke, who by this time had driven back, also saw the man by the road, and, drawing his gun, told him to raise his hands. With the other agents' order to keep his hands down, Erwin stood irresolute. Burke, not knowing of his dilemma, fired over the man's- head to enforce his order.

The other agents, armed with Other corporation officials, however, told to ask the NRA for an interpretation of the regulation. On its face, the regulation would bar expenditure of money borrowed from the corporation with any firm which does not comply fully with NRA codes. This would include the Ford industries, but it was stated unofficially that there was an understanding that Ford is willing to sign a certificate of compliance in specific cases and that this has been held sufficient to meet NRA regulations. The corporation's rule covering the NRA includes executive order 6G4G issued by the President on March 14 under which the Comptroller general has held that purchases by government from Forri or any his agents are barred despite the fact that the agents may be complying with codes. The Reconstruction Corporation yesterday began direct lending to lousing program, which is designed to encourage building of new homes and the repairing of old: And to carry out the announced policy of NRA to keep prices from mounting to excess.

Increased volume of building activity will permit a narrower margin between production costs and selling prices. High Labor Costs. It was predicted also that it will more than offset the increased costs of labor, which is some of the building industries, especially lumber, has risen from 50 to as high as 400 percent. Harry L. Hopkins, federal relief chief, is expected to take charge of the housing program unless he personally signifies a contrary preference to the president.

NEW MADRID, June 22 (AP)--Nightwatchman Albert Knox, 55, was shot to death early today, allegedly by Pete Coon, 28, was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. The shooting occurred at Coon's home where the marshal had gone after neighbors complained of noise. Sheriff Sam Harris, who said he had one eyewitness to the slaying, said Coon knocked down the marshal when he entered the house, grabbed the officer's revolver and shot him five times. When Coon seized the gun, the sheriff said, Knox begged, "Don't do that." Party Too Noisy "I'd just as soon die now as any time," the sheriff said Coon replied, as he started firing. "I'm not going to jail." Coon, the sheriff said, fled from the house, but returned a short time later, still carrying the slain officer's gun.

He offered no resistance when the sheriff placed him under arrest. Neighbors told the sheriff they called the marshal after a party at the Coon home had become noisy. Coon's mother, Mrs. A. L.

Coon, las operated a restaurant here for many years. Coon is married and one child. Knox is survived by his widow rid two grown daughters. COLLEGE STUDENT TICK COLLIDE SPRINGFIELD, June Thompson, 20, who had just returned to his home at Plans are being made to dramatize the program with celebrations, sim- iliar to those under which NRA was launched. The building materials industry will be among the first to "get on the band wagon," it was added, with Eureka Springs, after complet- (Continued on Pap a EFFORT TO HOLD DOG RACES FAILS AGAIN industry under recently enacted legislation.

It has for this machine guns, shouted, "It's all right," but Burke, unable to see them in the darkness, did not realize at once they were his companions. He desisted firing in the air after the agents had convinced him of their identity. Erwin, after questioning at Gleh- wood, was brought to the Omaha jail. STAINS ON HftTCHET NEKR HOME OF SAN JOSE, June 22--(AP) --A small hatchet, reported to bear red stains, was found by police today in the home of Mrs. Sibyl Fidanque, mysteriously missing since last Saturday.

Lieut. A. J. Rich, a navy intelligence officer and friend of the Fidanque family, declared, however, the hatchet did not bear blood stains. The hatchet was found under a settee in the front room as arrangements to obtain a large enough sum of money to meet possible ransom demands for missing woman were reported under way.

Lieut. Rich is aiding department of justice agents and police in efforts to ocate Mrs. Fidanque a singer and wife of a Panama shipping man. "There were positively no bloodstains on the hatchet," said Lieut. Rich.

"The hatchet was not hidden but merely was in a leather holster. It had been used to open boxes." ST. LOUIS, June 22--(AP)--Another of a series of efforts made over a several year period to inaugurate dog racing in St. Louis county, failed today when Circuit Judge Julius R. Nolte denied a temporary injunction sought to restrain county officials from interfering with operation of the Wellston Kennel Club.

The injunction was asked by Tony Foley and Thomas J. O'Meara Plans to conduct a greyhound racing meeting at the track were interrupted last week when Sherif Philip G. Denser seized the me chanical rabbit and control box. collision near Alpena, last Phillip Mark, an Arkansas Uni- ersity student, son of Perry Mark Eureka Springs, riding with Thompson, is in a Eureka, Springs hospital, but will recover. They found Thompson sitting in he road; young Mark dazed by the oadside.

"I'm not hurt--I don't have an ache, anywhere," Thompson told hem, though both his legs were jroken and he was severely crushed. Hs death, however, was believed due chiefly to shock. SEnm DEAD OF FULL SEDALIA, June (AP)Mrs. Delia Monroe, 90, mother the Pettis county court judge Frank Monroe, died yesterday from injuries suffered in a fall a month ago. ng his freshman year at State 'eachers College here, died in a ureka Springs hospital this morn- ig after a motorcycle he was rid- ig crashed into a truck in a heaci- MIDDLETOWN, June R.

Rectanus, 46, former vice-president of the American Rolling Mills Company, today beat and shot and killed his wife, Alma, 42, chot and wounded two other members of his family, and then killed himself. Wounded were his mother-in-law, Mrs. Elesa Rathman, 76, shot in the neck, condition said to be serious; and a daughter, Shirley, 12, wounded in the right side, condition fair. The other children, a daughter, Jane, 18, and a son, Daniel, 16, said they were struck by their father In his rampage and fled in terror from the house. The daughter Shirley, despite hei wound, was making her way to the garden of their home when police reached the scene.

Ractamus has been a member of the engineering staff of the American Rolling Mills Company since 1900. He resigned as vice-presiden in charge of operations in 1032, but still retained his vice-presidency. Temporary Insane. Coroner Cook ascribed the act to temparary insanit3' from some unknown cause. The children, still horror-stricken, said that as far as they knew their father arose from his sleep early today, and began striking his wife, with his fist.

Her screams arouseft' other members of the Cr'wrding into their father's bedroom they found he had shot their mother through the heart with one of three pistols he owned. Jane and Daniel were struck by pistols in their father's hands and brushed aside. Then, they said, their father shot down Mrs. Rathman in her room across the hall, shot Shirley in her nearby room, and then, returning to his own room, shot himself through the head. The two wounded were rushed to a hospital.

Mrs. Rathman's condition was said to be serious. An emergency operation on the youngest child brought successful remova charged with jury the Richard's case. Keeton's testimony tampering ir is a pack of Press in an exclusive interview in the deputy warden's office of the prison. "I didn't have a tiling to do with the Richards jury.

I didn't have any interest in the outcome of the case. I was in trouble myself, having been indicted for forgery. "If I'd wanted to do any jury fix- ng, I would have worked on my own Airy." "Contacted" Jurors Kecton testified he was an invas- for Lacy, and that Hogc 'contacted" jurors sitting on the Richards case. The attorney was acquitted of any connection with th( abduction of the late Alexiuidc Berg, but was later disbarred bj the state supreme court. "I was renting desk space li Lacy's office during the Richard trial, but attended the proceeding only one day.

Lacy was my allorne when I was charged with forging deed of trust." HORC, who hns served less tha two years of a 15-year term, sai prosecutors had asked him to testify against Lacy. "I told them I was not interested in the case, didn't know anything about It, so couldn't testify. They interviewed me here in prison." Lacy is attorney for Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench and three other defendants charged with kidnaping a prominent St. Louis dentist, Dr.

T. D. Kelley. Fred Tanner's Place Robbed of Money Goods and FORCED ENTRANCE WITH CROW BAR LAST, NIGHT Slot Machines Carried Out, Cash Register Emptied; Used Car the bullet. Her condition was described as fair.

FILM CHIEFS WILL CLEAN UP HOVIE5 LONG SAYS HUEY TOO QUICK TO POP OFF OKLAHOMA CITY, June 22-- (UP)-- Hucy Long is all right but pops off too quickly, according lo Dr. George E. Long, hi'solder brother and a candidate here for corporation commissioner: "Hucy's got the right ideas, regardless of what they say about him," said Dr. Long. "Perhaps he's too ambitious, but he's for the common man.

He ought to debate longer on lots of things, though, before popping off. That's what gets him into so many fights." In true FTiicy style, brother George wns attired in pyjamas when he discussed his brother. YOUTH HELDJIPTIVE One "Elaine" and 3 Other Women Supposedly Kidnap Boy of 17 LUST OF KLUTJI5 Chicago Officers Pick Alleged Mobster Up In Kansas City NEW YORK, June loday set forth on a strange hunt--a hunt for a 17-year-old youth being held captive by and three other women. The police teletype alarm directed sleuths to search Manhattan's west side hotels for the youth and his aptors. The missing youth is Jack Tuff- nan, of Brooklyn, who disappear- Trim his home on April 28.

His David, requested the search fler receiving mysterious telephone nils from a women who told him aclc was being held captive in a lotel by "Elaine" and three companions. He had received the first call early iVedneday morning, David told po- TKINCE HAS BIRTHDAY LONDON, JTine 22 (AP) He doesn't look it, but the Prince of Wales is 40 Years old tomorrow. Society gets little chance nowadays to couple the name of the world's most eligible bachelor with some stately princess or lovely lady of the realm. Cloudy Tonight, Cooler In South And East Tonight Partly cloudj tonijjht ant Saturday. Cooler in south and east- central portions tonight.

Illinois: Partly cloudy, showers in east portion, cooler In south-central portion tonight. Saturday unsettled. River Stzges Keokut at stand OFFICERS OF STRICKEN LI1ER Sffl AN KLIBI KOPERVIK, Norway, June 22 -(UP)--The captain and Norwegian pilot of the German liner Dresden, which sank off Karmo Island, sought today to shift blame for the disaster while the Dresden's D75 passengers, most of them without any clothes but those they wore awaited passage home. Capt. Peter Moeller, master, blamed a British admiralty chart partly for the wreck in which five died.

He inquiry Dresden Kansas City Boonvillc Hermann Union USiuei loi 1.2 rise fall fnli fail fall testified at a preliminary that the rock which the struck was unchanged. But he said also that when he altered the ship's route alone thr coast because of Mrs. Monroe came from a family of military men. Her father, Joseph Stallard, serevd in the War of 1812. His grandfather, Lieutenant Randolph Stallard was active in the Revolutionary War.

Mrs. Monroe's husband, Col. Thomas Monroe, Thomas Monroe, 1 died in 1881. He was an officer in the Confederate Army. In addition to her son, Mrs.

Monroe is survived by a daughter, Miss Lulu Monroe head of the hospital nurses at the Kem.per Military Academy, Boonviile; a stepson, Walter M. Monroe, of Tipton, and a grandson, Lieut. Frank Monroe, of the U. S. Navy at San Diego, Cal.

UTILITY DEFIES ORDER OF FEDERAL COMMISSION WASHINGTON, June (AP)-In a new challenge to the government, the Appalachian Electric Power Company served notice on the Federal Power Commission today it was going ahead with the construction of a dam on the New River, in Virginia, in defiance of the commission's order compelling it to seek a permit. A new test of th'e constitutional- WILL WRITES BOOM! IT NEW YORK, June 22--(UP)-Bernard M. Barueh is quitting Wall Street for the realm of literature. For many years Barueh has been one of the most glamorous fighters in high finance and industry. Now be wants to write the story of his life.

After that he plans to do a volume on what the future holds for youth and then one outlining his own philosophy of life Baiuch was chairman of the U. S. Industries board during the world war and has beeen active in the Democratic party. Today he was preparing to leave his skyscraper offices at 120 Broadway for new quarters uptown. FEDEfiftL SCENTS JOPLIN IJQIl STORES CINCINNATI, June --Facing a stern boycott at th hands of church people unless tion pictures are purged of objec: lionable scenes and dialogue, the movie industry has agreed to clean its own house.

The promise was given by representatives of the industry to a committee of Catholic prelates who, despite the assurances, decided to continue with renewed vigor the church's campaign against "evil motion pictures." The Catholic Bishops, meeting here with Archbishop John T. McNicholas, urged their followers in the "Legion of Decency" to see that movie producers "are constantly made aware of the demand for clean entertainment." Besides Archbishop McNichols, members of the Episcopal committee were Bishop John T. Cantwell, Los Angeles; Bishop Hugh Boyle, Pittsburgh; Bishop John P. Noll, Fort Wayne, Ind. Representatives of the movie industry, who had come here to receive the "clean-up" ultimatium from the prelates, were Joseph I Breen.

Hollywood, and Martin Quigley, New York. KANSAS CITY, June 22-(UP)--Edward Dorow, 32, alleged to be the last member of the "Jack Klulas mob," notorious for kidnap- ing and banditry in Illinois and Iowa, was arrested here at midnight by Chicago officers and local deputy sheriffs. Chicago officers said Dorow was wanted in Cook county, 111., on kid- naping charges. He will be returnee to Chicago today. Officers revealed they had been watching Dorow for a week in the hope he might attempt to establish ontact with John Diliingcr.

They decided to arrest him las ight when he made no move to ommunicate with the Indiana kill- dangerous fog, Norwegian Pilot Ja- ity of the Federal Water Power Act cobscn, said he knew the rysylkef- was foreshadowed by the company's -nthMi MtA jj-wr tnititsA. BAD EYE MURPHY ADMITS STEALING RING IN K. JOPLIN, June 22--(AP1--I federal agents, in their first raids KANSAS CITY, June 22-here since repeal, last night seized 1 Robert (Bad Eye) Murphy the stocks of two drug stores and arrested Jay Wilder and Vern Wilder, proprietor, on charges of pos- essing liquors on which there were no federal stamps. The accused waived preliminary hearing and gave bonds of each for appearance before the federl grand jury. In the meantime the stories were being operated loday b- clerks under the supervision of the federal agants.

SEEK ROAD HOUSE MAN WHO ALLEGEDLY KILLED WICHITA, uune 22---(UP) --Max Cohen, roadh.ouse proprietor was sought today for the alleged shooting of his wife while she attended a party at a competing roadhouse. Friends promised to sur- be "aabeaed 19-year old Kansas ex-convict, wa held by police today after he ha confessed to the holdup yesterda of P. P. Covert in which a $2,50 diamond ring was taken. The rin was recovered in the apartment one of Murphy's women friends.

Murphy was released in Decem bcr, 1932, from the Kansas state penitentiary where he served a seven-year term for a diamond robbery in Kansas City, Kan. Police continued the search for Murphy's accomplice. Burglars broke into Frcti H. Tanner's Drug Store on Ash Street lost night and carried away money and goods estimated in excess of $500. The burglars forced the lock on the front door with a wow bar.

Two slot machines near the show window were carried out. Both cash registers were emptied and the recepti- cnl in which the money for hunting licenses was kept also robbed. The burglars then invncied the prescription department and carried away practically all the whisky in the place. An undetermined number of cigarettes were stolen. An inventory will be necessary to the extent of the loss in merchandise.

Police were of the impression Lho thieves used an automobile to curry away the loot. A policeman asses the place fit Intervals and burglars evidently kept him un- er surveillance. The street light Ash and High was out last night ncl the neighborhood was pitch ark. Attempt 10 Days Ago An attempt wns made to burglarize he place about ten days ago and vhilc the thieves succeeded In Breaking the glass they did not gain ntrancc. The place wns burglar- ned once shortly before it was remodeled.

Mr. Tanner is a member of city council and the city police ice, but paid no attention his Informant to to it be a crank. A second message reached him esterday morning, he said. "Aren't you going lo do anything ibout your brother? Elaine has go him a prisoner," the woman said. She telephoned David again thlf morning, repeating her query.

Police were informed that two weeks before his disappearance, th msising youth told a friend he was in great fear of a girl named Elain and another girl, a Chinese. SOLON SMS EVIDENCE OF WILL MEICES U.5. Dorow had $480 in $20 bills in hi wssession when arrested. It wa xslieved to be part of the ransom money for the James Hackett kid mping in Blue Island, 111., las ummer. $75,000 was collected for Hackett' last summer, Chicago offi said.

He was kidnaped again in December for a ransom of $1,500. Hackett was a Blue Island gambler. The Chicago officers participating i the arrest included Bert Gray and Merrill Ciros, Cook county investigators, and Sargcant Dan Kcnncy of the Chicago police. Widely Hunted. CHICAGO, June Dorow, 32, alias F.ddie Wagner, seized in Kansas City today by Chicago authorities, has been hunted throughout the middle west for a year in connection with the kid- naping of James Hackett, gambler of Blue Island, 111.

A member of the gang of "College Boy" Jack Klutas, who was killed at Bellwood, when he attempted to evade capture, Dorow was named during the trial of two Klutas gangsters on charges of kid- naping Hackett. Gale Swooley and Frank Souders were given terms in Joliet prison for the kidnaping of the gambler. David (Babe) Jones, a member of the gang, turned state's evidence and was the star witness WAWSHINGTON, June 22--(AP) --An inquiry into the war materials industry has uncovered evidence which a senator calls "shocking." Senator Pope Ida.) said yesterday that investigators for the senate munitions committee had already uncovered "startling revelations" although they began the investigation only recently. MIAMI, June 22--(UP)-Charges raised by Leslie B. Farrington, St.

Paul, president of the National Junior Chamber of Commerce, that labor offered a menace to the recovery program, were debated Informally today at the second se.ssion of the Junior Chamber's 15lh national convention. Farrlngtou's charges, made at the opening session of the convention yesterday, were challenged by Linton M. Collins, federal NRA administrator for Florida, In an address late yesterday. Admitting that labor as well as capital needed "some overhauling," Collins defended labor by saying that "labor chiefs will continue to show their willingness to cooperate, as they did in the attempted steel strike, and I am confident that any fears that labor now constitutes menace to success of NRA principles is groundless." Farrington charged that was being "shackled" while no restrictions were being put on labor. Ho placed major Minneapolis truck upun labor.

blame for the drivers' strike The information was carefully guarded pending public hearings in September. Pope said that to dis- ose it prematurely would destroy "strategic value" and lead to subversive propaganda" by firms nvolvcd. It "will shock the nation" when isclosed, he added. The Injuiry, he idicated. will uncover a large "ring" nlerested in the propagation of against them.

SOCIETY BOXER RETIRES WESTHAMPTON, N. June 22 --(UP)--Enzo Fiermonte, who was barred from meeting Light Heavyweight Champion Maxie Rosenbloom July 19. today announced his retirement from the ring. He hasn't fought since he married Mrs, LOW WATER IN MISSOUR DELAYS BARGE SERVICE ST. LOUIS, June 22--(UP)--Low water in the Missouri river may de lay the inauguration of barge ser vice between here and Kansas City J.

F. general agent of th Federal Barge Lines, announced. Ward said the service, originall intended to be started this month probably will begin next month. The gauge at Hermann, ye? t.erday stood at 5.6 feet above )I5TER DILLINGER, HE'S WELL GALION, June 22--(AP)--John Dillinger still lives, according to his ister, Mrs. Audrey Hancock, Maywood, who has written Mrs.

ulalia Callender, a friend here, "we have heard from John and he is well." Reports have been recurrent since the Indiana desperado shot his way 'rom a trap set by federal officers at a Wisconsin resort that he might lavn died of wounds. "We do not know where John is hiding," Mrs. Hancock wrote. "I wish I did know. We have so much mail for him.

Today, Friday, June 22, is his thirty-second birthday." WELL KNOWN iBL ESTSTE IS KANSAS CITY, June 22--(AP) -Herbert M. Metcalf, for 25 years a real estate and insurance man here, died last night at his apartment hotel, 321 Ward Parkway. He had been an invalid several years. Born in Marengo, Mr. Met- cnlf lived the greater part of his life in Nevada, where he prac-' ticed dentistry.

He moved here 25 years ago and became treasurer of the firm of McGonigle-Stinson Metcalf. Mr. Metcalf is survived by his widow, Mrs. Mary Metcalf at home, and a sister. Mrs.

Grace Wilcox, Hampshire, 111. OZARK EDUCATOR TO BE BURIED ABOVE GROUND CARBOLIC ACID CAUSE OF KANSAS MAN'S DEATH KANSAS CITY, June 22-(UP)--A post mortem examination today disclosed that the death of William S. Bell, 45, Lawrence, Kan was due to carbolic acid taken over SPRINGFIELD, June 22-AP)--Carrying out the repeatedly expressed wish of Professor M. A. O'Rear, State Teachers College instructor, who died Thursday, that he be "buried above the ground," an individual crypt will be erected in a cemetery here to contain his xxiy.

Meantime, following the funeral service at 2:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon, the body will be placed in a receiving vault at the home. GUN MOLLS FLEE CHICAGO, June 22--(AP)--The three Dillinger gang girls, 'oroughfc to Chicago to act as decoys in the hunt for their fugitive affinities, it developed today, have eluded the surveillance of federal agents and the.